Gosh.. hmmm now where did we leave off? OK... last post was jumping ... the girls working hard at seat and hands while jumping. From there... we had another lesson and I took tons of video of them jumping. Here are the differences between the two.
The bay mare pops over them easily with forward motion only after being confident about the jump at hand. The rider sticks with her horse but needs to work on maintaining the contact throughout the jump. Before, during & AFTER. If her horse tries to run away after the jump, decide to halt after the jump a few times around and get the horse to listen. Taking control of the horse upon landing and not by bumping on the mouth... RIGHT! right :)
The grey mare, has no forward motion and wants to be babysat throughout the course. Finding ways to get out of jumping knowing that the rider only WILLS the horse forward and doesnt take control or maintain forward motion. The rider worries more about falling off and holds on and leaves the horse to jump at will and then bumps the horse upon landing which makes said horse mad and gain speed which makes said rider worry more and think horse with NO FORWARD mtion is going to run away with her. So she bangs on horse and does one rein stops. NOT ANYMORE RIGHT?!!! right :)
After that lesson we decided that maybe the next lesson would be at the HEP cross country course.
I decided that it would be great to condition my steads on the course as well so the first day we took Baby & Misty. They did great... except for one thing... grey mare did tons of circles between 12" jumps to gain the confidence to go onto next jump. INSTEAD of just taking control of her horse, which she is learning to now ... :)
Keep up the good work and the fruits of your labor will be ready to harvest soon!
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